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MISERLINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does miserliness mean?
• MISERLINESS (noun)
The noun MISERLINESS has 1 sense:
1. total lack of generosity with money
Familiarity information: MISERLINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Total lack of generosity with money
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("miserliness" is a kind of...):
closeness; meanness; minginess; niggardliness; niggardness; parsimoniousness; parsimony; tightfistedness; tightness (extreme stinginess)
Derivation:
miserly ((used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity)
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